The day two blog certainly didn’t come as quickly as the day one blog. What I lack in timeliness I will make up for in pictures.

A quick recap of what I learned/discussed on day two of my first istockphoto.com Mini’Lypse.

- Makeup Artists are awesome. As a rule, they start drinking before anyone else.
- If you bring 10 photographers, 20 dancers, 3 makeup artists and many helpers into Small Town Texas, people will drive by real slow. Several Times.
- Aerialists tie good knots.
- Chimping is contagious
- Rat traps are sticky and gross
- Ballet is awesome to photograph, as is Irish Dance and Tap Dance
- The AlienBee Vagabond is both fitting for a Bohemia’lypse and life saving. (Thanks Mark!)

Onto the photos of the behind the scene action from both days.

John Mootz, Light Tester Extraordinaire

Josh Banks, Second Station Setup Shot.

John gets Dana and Becca in place for his shots on our third set, first day

Stefan, Testing the Lights for our first setup on Saturday Afternoon

Steve, Fun with the Ring Flash.

Patty, Ring Flashed

Lori, Ring Flashed tambien

Angela, Flashed and Sparkly

Pam, Light Testing on Day Two, set one

Lori, On the Afternoon Set, probably cursing a Skyport

Pam, Impossibly smiling, even though a skyport is attached to her camera

Steve, Chimping

Tavia, Flashed with an Orbis, Flower in her Hair

Geoff, Showing Off (his images I think)

Aimee, on the 25000 pound table

Fin

–JB

Chelsey in the Wind

Started working with Chelsey after I talked to her from the Sunsets and Horses photos from last week. Said she might be interested in some Senior Portraits. I said, “Let’s do it!”

We started at Cianfrani’s in the square at Georgetown, my favorite coffee shop. Met up with Chelsey and her mother and went over the plan I had set out for us. Our plan was to use the niche’s and vignettes that make the Georgetown square one of my favorite shooting area’s. Thanks to my buddy Geoff Hammond to turning me onto a couple of them.

First, we hit up a doorway on the backside of the square to show off the angles and lines of Chelsey’s 6’2” frame. I used my orbis ringflash on these to give it a high fashion look. Had to make sure the the first location was in the shade because the sun was out with no clouds, although that would change later, because the Orbis eats up a lot of power from my 430′s.

Chelsey in the Doorway

Our second location was at the Rough and Ready Antique Store, a great location for vignettes. The sunlight was hard still with no clouds and about 12:45 in the day. I found a non-wet chair with good color and told Chelsey to “get slinky”. this location produced 2 of my favorites from the day.

Chelsey in the Movies

Movie Star

The 2 images above seem like they could be from a 1970′s movie set, one starring Farrah Fawcett, or maybe Barbarella.

Then off to the classic alley way in between Rough and Ready Antiques and The Framer’s Gallery. I have used the back drop before. Still love it.

Backlit Chelsey

From there, we moved around the corner to a little white table and chair, with the Antique Sign in the background. The last 3 locations are within 30 feet of each other, but each gives such a different vibe. Thanks again to the local merchants of Georgetown fro keeping your stores awesome. Almost Mediterranean in feel, Chelsey is rocking the casual look in these.

At the Cafe

And it wouldn’t be a good blog post with out some bodily injury to me, the photographer. We were setting up right on the corner of 7th and Main, watching the cops roll by, when my forehead fell in love with a dowel rod on a lamp post. 3 days later, and I still have a bump, bruise and scab…. Love hurts.

I knew this would be a good location because it really says Georgetown to me, well, not just me, the sign in the back actually reads, “Discover Georgetown”. Figured it would be a good graphic element to work with, and I ran with it as my adrenaline was coursing due to head trauma.

Discover Georgetown

The last location at Georgetown is my wife’s favorite, I like it too. My buddy David helped us out here, the wind blew him to our corner of the street and I used the gift.
He is holding the 24 inch Ezybox while Chelsey get her posin’ on.

Rock Wall, Red Head

We finished up at the Square in a robust 90 minutes of shooting, full of antiques, vignettes, green tea, and battle wounds.

The gallery of Georgetown images is here.

In Part Two we travel to Ramaker Stables

– JB

I had a great time in Georgetown on Saturday for Scott Kelby’s World Wide Photo Walk. 50 photographers met up on the square in G’town at Cianfrani’s coffee shop. We proceeded to take in the town square, the old palace theater, the library and then back to the square. We walked from about 8am to about 11am.

I changed things up this year by trying out a flash on a stick. Basically I was walking around with a bare flash on a lightstand with another flash and trigger in my backpack in case I wanted to go with a two light setup. I also went about getting different subjects that most, mainly because mine were subjects and not objects. Apparently I like people.

Paul Riley, Peter Shugarts, Carlos Austin and Amresh were the guys I walked with most, but we ebbed and flowed into a group and out on our own again. Also got to see Bill Lawrence, Geoff Hammond (the photo walk leader), and Bill Meier. We sat around the lunch table and chimped like no tommorow. But we were the only ones in the room doing it, so we felt even more like zoo animals.

Great to see everyone, and the diversity of images we obtained. Already looking forward to next year.

Here is a link to my images
and the Flickr Group for all the photos link

also check out
www.hammondovi.com
www.austinphotography.com
www.plriley.com
www.smLawrencePhotography.com